The Flow of Egyptian Dance🌙
I´m often asked what makes Egyptian Dance authentic
What characterizes it. What distinguishes it from other styles within and out of the Oriental Dance world.
There isn´t one answer to that question, but many answers, angles, and levels.
What makes Egyptian Dance authentic is a combination of posture - mind, heart, body, and soul -, movement, musicality, sensibility, and cultural context.What makes Egyptian Dance authentic is the vibration of the hearts, the one in the chest and the one in the womb.What makes Egyptian Dance authentic is a deep, relaxed, and ego-less flow that doesn´t accept an inch of tension, stress, anxiety, or ambition. It´s pure being, pure expression, pure instinct and freedom. Pure love.When I see Egyptian Dance nowadays, performed by Egyptians and foreigners, I miss the dance. And above all, the flow that defines it.
No tension.No struggle.No trying hard to impress.No "Ballroom" stiff muscles, bones, and feeling.No machine-like movement.No tricks.Pure flow, let me repeat. Pure life.
And yes, it takes study, practice, and the right kind of guidance to tap into this magic. It doesn´t fall from the sky. Yet, it´s not a privilege of a few - it´s available to all of us. To learn, enjoy, and fly.
